Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

— Leo Buscaglia

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

— Leo Buscaglia

The fact that I can plant a seed, and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge, and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.

— Leo Buscaglia

The fact that I can plant a seed, and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge, and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

— Leo Buscaglia

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

— Leo Buscaglia

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

— Leo Buscaglia

...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

— Leo Buscaglia

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

— Leo Buscaglia

There are two big forces at work external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes earthquakes floods disasters illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

— Leo Buscaglia

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

— Leo Buscaglia